The Doppler effect is named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who described in 1842 how the pitch of a sound changes for an observer as its source moves toward or away from them. The phenomenon became familiar through passing sirens, trains, and aircraft, and audio libraries later turned it into a ready-made effect for film, games, and online video. On TikTok, short clips of that rising and falling tone are reused to add motion and urgency to edits, keeping a classic piece of physics instantly recognisable in modern short-form content.